Record

RefNoRR/6/192
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by William John Macquorn Rankine, on a paper 'On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers, by their weight only' by Henry Moseley
Date24 February 1869
DescriptionRecommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The results of the first part of the paper dealing with shearing, and general mathematical results, have already been published in the Proceedings. Does not consider the abstract in the Proceedings to be 'sufficiently detailed' to show the full mathematical process.

Subject: Geology, Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
Extent5p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionLetter on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1868.0028 Vol.17 1869
RelatedRecordRR/6/191
AP/51/8
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1846Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872)1820 - 1872
NA2248Moseley; Henry (1801 - 1872)1801 - 1872
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